Fintech Week is a series of conferences, exhibitions, workshops, hackathons, meetups and parties. Each day we focus on a different topic. We always ensure that there is plenty of time for networking and meeting other innovators. The main conference/exhibition takes place at the Grange Tower Bridge Hotel, but other events take place across the City of London, Canary Wharf and “Tech City.”

Expect 600-1,000 conference delegates per day from over 50 countries and 3,000 – 5,000 participants in events throughout the week.

Wolters Kluwer’s Finance, Risk & Reporting business has hired Rajat Somany as Global Head of Strategy, Product and Platform Management – a newly created role. 

BlockCon - Disruptive Innovation conference will take place in Bucharest, the capital of Romania, on June 8. The conference organized by a Singapore-based startup company C.O.S.S. PTE LTD (COSS for short) in association of the Romanian Chamber of Commerce and Industry will focus on disruptive technologies highlighting their application in fintech and the innovative businesses.

Compuware Corporation, the world’s leading mainframe-dedicated software company, today released new research revealing that, despite making progress over the past 12 months, the majority of European and U.S. businesses are still inadequately prepared to comply with the new EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), due to be enacted next year.

Key findings include:

It wasn’t too long ago that consumers would buy products so that they could own them. Just think about the mobile phone market ten years ago: you would buy the handset outright and then top it up with credit accordingly, and the best thing about it was that it was yours.

SDK.finance has presented a solution to the late invoice payments problem at ING's 24H-CodING Hackathon. The event took place in Katowice, Poland, May 12th &13th and gathered 55 teams from all over Europe.

Financial IT catches up with Christian Schiebl, Executive Vice President of SmartStream to talk about retail payments ecosystem and how SmartStream helps financial institutions to manage retail payments challenges.

Today announced a solution that will enable ANSYS engineering simulation technology to be rapidly added to applications built on the ThingWorx®Industrial Internet of Things (IoT) platform from PTC. The development of a connector between these two technology platforms will enable customers to transform raw data into new forms of actionable intelligence. The connector will integrate intelligent digital simulation models with products as they exist and operate in the real world.

IPC Systems, Inc., a leading global provider of secure, compliant communications and networking solutions for the financial markets community, today announced a collaboration with OneAsia, a provider of connectivity, datacenter, managed cloud and technology infrastructure services in Asia, to equip investors around the world with the connectivity and technology critical for reliable, secure participation in the Chinese financial markets. The announcement was made at the start of the 15th Asia Pacific Trading Summit in Hong Kong.